An anti-malvertising model for university students to increase security awareness
Accessing the website through the Internet has introduced a new way of advertising information to the users. The term “malvertising” comes from the word malware and advertising. It is one type of attack that performs malware or scareware injection into the online advertisements. The purpose of th...
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| author | Noorlaily Izwana Ibrahim |
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| description | Accessing the website through the Internet has introduced a new way of
advertising information to the users. The term “malvertising” comes from the word
malware and advertising. It is one type of attack that performs malware or scareware
injection into the online advertisements. The purpose of this study is to investigate
security awareness on malvertising attack among university students, propose an
anti-malvertising model to improve security awareness, and to evaluate the security
awareness of the proposed model. The data collection of the research starts with
preliminary study in understanding the malvertising issue. Then, survey
questionnaire is distributed to university students from two different local
universities (UTM, Kuala Lumpur and UMP, Pahang) from two different
backgrounds (IT related and non-IT related courses) to investigate current security
awareness on malvertising attack. The study proposes theoretical model on antimalvertising
and the security awareness will be analyzed through the survey. The
proposed model consists of protection, behavior and monitoring components,
identified as independent variables and the security awareness on the antimalvertising
will is identified as the dependent variable. The study had found that
more than half of the students are aware with the malvertising attack by practicing
protection measures, security behavior, and security monitoring that give positive
impact to the students’ security awareness. This proposed theoretical model may be
beneficial for the students as a basis of reference for anti-malvertising exercise, while
promoting the security awareness among university students. Besides, the theoretical
model can be used as a reference for the researchers in this field as well as other
security practitioners in practicing the suitable components that constitute security
awareness for malvertising. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-481232017-08-15T07:24:18Z http://eprints.utm.my/48123/ An anti-malvertising model for university students to increase security awareness Noorlaily Izwana Ibrahim QA76 Computer software Accessing the website through the Internet has introduced a new way of advertising information to the users. The term “malvertising” comes from the word malware and advertising. It is one type of attack that performs malware or scareware injection into the online advertisements. The purpose of this study is to investigate security awareness on malvertising attack among university students, propose an anti-malvertising model to improve security awareness, and to evaluate the security awareness of the proposed model. The data collection of the research starts with preliminary study in understanding the malvertising issue. Then, survey questionnaire is distributed to university students from two different local universities (UTM, Kuala Lumpur and UMP, Pahang) from two different backgrounds (IT related and non-IT related courses) to investigate current security awareness on malvertising attack. The study proposes theoretical model on antimalvertising and the security awareness will be analyzed through the survey. The proposed model consists of protection, behavior and monitoring components, identified as independent variables and the security awareness on the antimalvertising will is identified as the dependent variable. The study had found that more than half of the students are aware with the malvertising attack by practicing protection measures, security behavior, and security monitoring that give positive impact to the students’ security awareness. This proposed theoretical model may be beneficial for the students as a basis of reference for anti-malvertising exercise, while promoting the security awareness among university students. Besides, the theoretical model can be used as a reference for the researchers in this field as well as other security practitioners in practicing the suitable components that constitute security awareness for malvertising. 2012 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/48123/1/NoorlailyIzwanaIbrahimMFC2012.pdf Noorlaily Izwana Ibrahim (2012) An anti-malvertising model for university students to increase security awareness. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing. http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:83005?queryType=vitalDismax&query=An+anti-malvertising+model+for+university+students+to+increase+security+awareness&public=true |
| spellingShingle | QA76 Computer software Noorlaily Izwana Ibrahim An anti-malvertising model for university students to increase security awareness |
| title | An anti-malvertising model for university students to increase security awareness |
| title_full | An anti-malvertising model for university students to increase security awareness |
| title_fullStr | An anti-malvertising model for university students to increase security awareness |
| title_full_unstemmed | An anti-malvertising model for university students to increase security awareness |
| title_short | An anti-malvertising model for university students to increase security awareness |
| title_sort | anti malvertising model for university students to increase security awareness |
| topic | QA76 Computer software |
| url | http://eprints.utm.my/48123/1/NoorlailyIzwanaIbrahimMFC2012.pdf |
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